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Apple Mail MCP MCP Server

Apple Mail MCP server with full-coverage FTS5 body search, reliable on large mailboxes.

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Published as apple-mail-mcp on pypi. Runs locally.

Known issues

10 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team. Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 7.

Most discussed

search() cannot distinguish a missing index from a genuine no-match, so an unbuilt index reads as an empty mailbox

search() cannot distinguish "no index" from "no match", so an unbuilt or stale index looks exactly like a genuinely empty result. On my install that cost roughly four months of silently empty searches, on a mailbox of 18,232 emails that would have matched constantly.

Filing this with the backing of the Dex project, where the same problem is tracked as davekilleen/Dex#446. Dave (the maintainer there) asked me to bring it here directly since I have the reproduction. Happy to send a PR if the sh

Read the thread · 2026-08-12 · closed · outside contributor · 2 comments

PermissionError escapes both no-FDA fallbacks: get_emails() fails outright, and attachment reads report "not found"

Running without Full Disk Access — which the docs describe as supported ("The MCP server itself does not need Full Disk Access — only the index and rebuild commands do", docs/troubleshooting.md) — two code paths fail in ways that look like different bugs but share one root cause.

PermissionError subclasses OSError, not FileNotFoundError. Both sites below have a handler that clearly intends to cover an unreadable Mail store, and PermissionError walks straight past it.

Happy to

Read the thread · 2026-08-07 · open · external user · 2 comments

Two concurrent --watch instances (Claude Desktop spawns MCP servers twice) cause write storm, unbounded WAL growth and blocked FTS searches

Environment

  • apple-mail-mcp 0.4.2
  • macOS 26.5.2
  • Claude Desktop as MCP client
  • Observed on 2026-07-15

Summary

Claude Desktop structurally spawns two instances of every configured MCP server — one for Desktop chats and one for the Claude Code bridge. When both instances run with serve --watch, the two watchfiles watchers operate on the same SQLite database (~/.apple-mail-mcp/index.db, WAL mode) and get into a sustained write storm.

Symptoms

  • Log spam every few seconds: `In

Read the thread · 2026-07-15 · closed · external user · 1 comment

Feature request: APPLE_MAIL_INDEX_EXCLUDE_ACCOUNTS for account-level index exclusion

Summary

Request a new environment variable APPLE_MAIL_INDEX_EXCLUDE_ACCOUNTS (comma-separated, like the existing APPLE_MAIL_INDEX_EXCLUDE_MAILBOXES) that excludes entire accounts from the index at build time.

Motivation

APPLE_MAIL_INDEX_EXCLUDE_MAILBOXES matches by mailbox name only, with no account-qualified syntax. This works fine for excluding category folders like Drafts (the default), but fails for the common case of wanting to exclude an entire account whose mailboxes have g

Read the thread · 2026-05-22 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Attachment Download Error

Always got error: attachment not found when run with cloude coworker. But can got it when via MCP Inspector.

get_email_attachment Request

{ "message_id": 437629, "filename": "GCEMEARSD0000290714-2.pdf", "account": "info@playlingo.app", "mailbox": "[Gmail]" } Error

Error calling tool 'get_email_attachment': Attachment 'GCEMEARSD0000290714-2.pdf' not found in email 437629.

Read the thread · 2026-04-03 · closed · external user · 2 comments

Most recent

get_emails() silently returns [] for Gmail-backed accounts: Envelope Index fast path misses label-based mailbox membership

Problem

On 0.4.0/0.4.1, get_emails(account, mailbox) returns an empty list for Gmail-backed accounts even when the mailbox has plenty of mail. No error is raised, so the JXA fallback never runs and the caller gets a silently wrong empty result.

Repro (real mailbox, macOS 14, Mail V10)

get_emails(account="<gmail account>", mailbox="INBOX") returned [] for an INBOX that AppleScript confirms holds 104 messages.

Root cause

The Strategy-0 fast path assumes mailbox membership is ex

Read the thread · 2026-06-12 · closed · outside contributor · 0 comments

Alternative install fix for Claude Desktop — cyclopts dependency conflict

Alternative install method for Claude Desktop (macOS) — cyclopts dependency fix

For anyone hitting package resolution errors with uvx apple-mail-mcp@latest, the fix is to enable pre-release dependencies explicitly:

In your claude_desktop_config.json:

"apple-mail": {
  "command": "uvx",
  "args": ["--prerelease=allow", "apple-mail-mcp@latest"]
}

The --prerelease=allow flag resolves the cyclopts>=5.0.0a1 dependency conflict that causes the install to fail silently. Conf

Read the thread · 2026-04-28 · closed · external user · 0 comments

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